Alameda administrators stretched thin

Since folks that read SFGate aren’t the click through type, I decided to post this here so folks could evaluate data about the “top heavy” AUSD administration for themselves.

The anti-Measure E campaign led by Committee Against Measure E (CAME)/Alamedans for Fair Taxation (AFT) have contended that compared to other school districts of like size, the Alameda Unified School District has the “2nd and 3rd highest Administrators and Services staff per pupil of all California school districts our size!!”

But it appears that CAME/AFT simply read the data wrong and in fact, the larger the number meant that AUSD had less Administators and Services Staff per pupil than other school districts of similiar size. In fact, the number indicated in the box is the number of pupils per one administrator or support staff if you are viewing the other column

For pupils per administrator, the California state average of around 250 pupils per one administrator. Alameda has 385 pupils per one administrator. That means that for every administrator in Alameda they are spread more thin that the state average. Which is good from the perspective of showing that AUSD is not top loading their funding to expensive administrator, but bad in the sense that administrative duties are stretched to the limit which ultimately affects the students. See the data here:

Ed Data

Pupils per administrator

More on the drama here because once it was pointed out to CAME/AFT that their reading of the data was wrong, they simply decided to change the data set as oppose to acknowledge their error.